Workforce stabilization payments for school paraprofessionals, and providing for the repeal thereof.

Summary

This bill would require the Department of Education to provide annual workforce stabilization payments to eligible school paraprofessionals on August 1 of each year. Each payment would be a non-pensionable, lump sum payment of $10,000, pro-rated by the number of school days on payroll in the relevant school year. The requirement would be repealed upon the execution of a collective bargaining agreement that provides for an increase in the total annual compensation for school paraprofessionals equal to or greater than the amount of the workforce stabilization payments.

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